{"id":72648,"date":"2015-08-14T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72648"},"modified":"2015-08-14T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T21:22:34","slug":"diversity-destroys-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72648","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Destroys Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/28\/another-study-confirms-diversity-proximity-war\/\">Another study<\/a>: Community psychologists are interested in creating contexts that promote both respect for diversity and sense of community. However, recent theoretical and empirical work has uncovered a community-diversity dialectic wherein the contextual conditions that foster respect for diversity run in opposition to those that foster sense of community. More specifically, within neighborhoods, residential integration provides opportunities for intergroup contact that are necessary to promote respect for diversity but may prevent the formation of dense interpersonal networks that are necessary to promote sense of community. Using agent-based modeling to simulate neighborhoods and neighborhood social network formation, we explore whether the community-diversity dialectic emerges from two principle of relationship formation: homophily and proximity. The model suggests that when people form relationships with similar and nearby others, the contexts that offer opportunities to develop a respect for diversity are different from the contexts that foster a sense of community. Based on these results, we conclude with a discussion of whether it is possible to create neighborhoods that simultaneously foster respect for diversity and sense of community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another study: Community psychologists are interested in creating contexts that promote both respect for diversity and sense of community. 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